Topic: BitMinter.com * Optional Custom Miner, PPLNS, Merged mining, Newbie-Friendly! * - page 20. (Read 220699 times)

Hi all

Just testing the water with bitcoin mining, i've been using my laptop and an icarus USB asic miner.

My problem is, when i'm mining at work, i see the following:



yet when i mine at home, or at the hotel i stay at frequently i don't get these messages


Any ideas / suggestions? i guess this is a network issue?


Thanks

Which Catalyst drivers are you running on?

Could you try updating to the latest stable or latest beta version from amd.com ?

I am learning a lot from this topic thanks for putting
out all of this good info

what's wrong with my bitminter client? It output nothing but Miscalculations for a long time.
2013.11.26 [03:41] Found 1 OpenCL-compatible GPU
2013.11.26 [03:41]  BFI patch failed!
2013.11.26 [03:41] Starting long polling
2013.11.26 [03:41] Difficulty is now 609482680
2013.11.26 [06:37]  Fetching more work failed: mint.bitminter.com
2013.11.26 [06:37]  Fetching more work failed: mint.bitminter.com
2013.11.26 [06:37]  Fetching more work failed: mint.bitminter.com
2013.11.26 [06:37]  Fetching more work failed: mint.bitminter.com

The connetion is ok, Proofs 0, Miscalculations 129, Spare work on hand 2.
Anybody can help? Thanks.

Dear Doctor,

Thank you for pointing me toward power as a probable issue!

I read the link you give above and checked the brick that came with my ANKER HUB. It is a "MyPowerSwitching Adapter PS601BCAY 5000S", rated Output is 12 volts at 5000ma.

This should have been be able to power three (or more) sticks. I am drawing 100 ma per stick, for a total of 300 ma.  That is less that one half amp. And the Brick is "nominally" capable of 5 amps. But as was pointed out by the comment you linked me to, some bricks work better than others.

I decided that the "switching" part of that brick might be the offending element, and just ordered at a cost of less than $10, the brick indicated in the comment I read as a good reliable source of power for these HUBS.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VE7GQQ/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

When I get the new power brick I will hook it up and report the results back here.

Meanwhile, I just want to report to all that I discovered a valuable set of free tools available at www.nirsoft.net One of them "USB DEVIEW" shows me in a clear table format all the USB connections active in the machine and those that are running COM ports which it identifies by COM Port Number.

The other program is extremely informative, and it is called "SmartSniff". It shows in real time who is connecting, their protocol, and with what message or instructions (ie the packets content). I have had great difficulty, especially with Microsoft and with other outfits like Google, Amazon, and others which are obscure, with getting "disconnected" by ICMP, UDP, and other "remote" signals.  The Bit mining will be going fine for a while, and then everything stops and all LED lights are solid green.  Microsoft in particular and Amazon Technologies are pests constantly in the background partition messing about. (Also something called "Softlayer").

The immediate solution I am using for now is to use "Outpost Security" to block various IPs, and a VPN called "Hide My Ass" to encrypt and redirect all my communications through Poland. It slows down my work rate a bit, but keeps the machine "up" all day.

I think the longer term fix is to get out of Windows altogether (too many back doors) and into a Linux distribution like "Mint" for example.

Rick 



 

I think the USB sticks are USB 2. So no need for USB 3.

Your problem is probably that they don't get enough power.

See this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2998466

Thank you for the good on/off advice. I also tend to push too fast, and not give the puter a chance to respond before confusing it with a new command or keystroke.

Right now I am getting aprox 1 GHs with three 330MHs sticks in an ANKER USB v3.0 HUB. Using the very comfortable (for me) and assuring bitminter GUI with the dynamic meter and verbose commenting screen.  I tried to put in a fourth stick (nine slots are available) but the fourth stick is "found" then goes inactive and will not boot. I thought the problem might be a mismatch on speed of transmission between my old DELL XP which uses USB v2.0 connectors. So I ordered a PCI adapter card from Hong Kong ($9.95) to upgrade the PC to USB v3.0 connectors that will make it in synch with the ANKER HUB.  Here is the link I used for that order:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Port-5Gbps-Superspeed-USB-3-0-PCI-E-PCI-Express-Card-Adapter-for-XP-Vista-Win7-/290877977758?ssPageName=ADME:L:OC:US:3160

Hopefully when I match the speed of the HUB with a corresponding high speed card it will allow me to load the nine slots eventually and increase my contribution to the pool rate.


Rick

You can use EasyMiner on Bitminter. You need to choose custom or manual mining or whatever they call it. There will be a command line field with an example bfgminer command. Put in something like this in that field:

bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 -u user_worker -p X

Except replace user_worker with your user and worker name at Bitminter.

There's a delay from doing work until the work is fully paid, 10 shifts, currently about 10 hours.

If you turn off the prepay perk the pay will first appear as unconfirmed. If the blocks are confirmed then the pay is confirmed. This takes about 20 hours.

More info on payouts:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2769824

So i recentley set up my account on bitminter.com and started using the Bitminter miner and I can see that its getting proof of work accepted by server and all of that stuff but my balance on the website is not changing, only the unconfirmed for NMC and the future for both BTC and NMC are changing. I have my account info set up on the miner as well. Thoughts?

Thanks Doc!  I already have installed those USB to Serial drivers when I setup EasyMiner (the BFL software/eclipse pool), so this should be a snap.  I want to switch to Bitminter so I could rack up some NMC while mining BTC.  I keep my miner off-site (in an unused room at a relative's house), when I get around to doing the switch over, I'll let you know how it went.  Prolly next week sometime.

Thanks again! 

Got my first paymen today of 0.01 from the Doc !!!

Almost a 3rd of the way to getting another one !

You may need to install drivers on old operating systems: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm

On Ubuntu you may need to give yourself access to serial ports:

"sudo usermod -a -G dialout USERNAME" then log out and back in

Then plug the device in the USB port and start Bitminter client, or if the client is already running choose "devices" -> "probe all ports" in the menu.

Is there a quick run down/tutorial for install and setup of a BFL ASIC device (little single) with Bitminter on Win XP or Ubunto?

Thanks!
CRk

Thanks for replying so quickly.

Just to be helpful to others looking for the info...

To get my setup to work, I had to follow the instructions here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/blue-fury-support-thread-319419
I scrolled down to the windows instructions: << Windows 7 Installation Instructions >>

They also have a video tutorial here that shows exactly what to do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUtcah8iSNE

I look forward to using the BitMinter Client if you can get it to work. Thanks!

Many people have this problem and I haven't been able to figure out why yet.

Could you try this: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3633302

My Setup: Win 7 Pro, BitMinter Client v1.4.2
ASIC: Bitfury USB, connected through USB hub. (I've tested with and without the hub)

I installed the bf1.inf driver, and when I click on "Devices and Printers" I show the Bitfury: Bitfury BF1 USB Miner (COM9),
however when I run the BitMinter Client, I get an error: "Probe of port COM9 failed: timeout" and the Bitfury doesn't show.

Any suggestions of what I may be doing wrong?
Thanks!

I'll have to o back and take another ganer but I could swear all I saw was name and password.

You have to put the user name in the user name field and the worker name in the worker name field.

In addition to my last post...

1) Wow does this place seem dead... when I first joined a lot of posts were bumbpin here.
2) Hey Doc, why can't we seem to use workers in the client ? I tried MoreBloodWine_worker2 on my brothers computer but the work he does defaults to worker1 since it's the default worker.